passion and pain at the assembly line.avi

The assembly line was yesterday. In the future, robots and machines will do the same work much faster, cheaper and with higher accuracy. In developed countries almost all traditional work at assembly lines is done by machinery. This trend will continue in the future threatening jobs in developing countries, where (currently) wages are lower than the costs of technological investment. The problem today is that only a few people benefit from the use of technology and money. But the majority of people in developed and developing countries are forced to work a great deal to avoid unemployment and make a living. Increasing economic inequality causes tension in society, resulting in crime, violence and wars. Extrapolating this trend into the future, it is evident that we need a systematic change so that society as a whole will profit from increased automation. See The Venus Project for more information.

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• Technological
• unemployment
• assembly
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• Automation
• work
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• production
• automated
• manufacturing
• developing
• countries
• low
• wages
• robots.

[10majfar]

So that little fucker is going to take my job in 5 years?

[salemcripple]

I share the same opinion as you do about the automation of assembly lines. I try to explain it to people, but most hold fast to the belief that robots are here to somehow liberate us from boring repetitive jobs. If you ask me, boring and repetitive or not, it's still a job! And sorry to say it, but it's the best job some people will ever get. The cold hard fact is allot of people just aren't smart enough (and will never be smart enough) to do high level jobs.